It's the second tech company to agree to a payout after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol prompted Trump to be kicked off numerous social media platforms.

Since DOGE’s creation it has gone after cutting federal spending deemed by the Trump administration to be wasteful and unnecessary.

The White House is sending mixed signals about who is running the Department of Government Efficiency. A court filing revealed late Monday night that Elon Musk is technically not a part of the group and instead serves as a senior adviser to President Trump.

The White House says Musk isn’t actually a DOGE employee, even though President Donald Trump announced him as its head to virtually everyone treating him as such.

Republicans in Congress have no control over DOGE, and now the White House denies Elon Musk is running it. Convenient!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says billionaire Elon Musk is not the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency team that is sweeping through federal agencies, but is rather a senior adviser to President Donald Trump.

A Trump administration personnel official says Musk has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions."

At a news conference on Tuesday, President Trump responded to a question about potential conflicts of interest for Elon Musk and his oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency. "Anything to do with possibly even space,

Elon Musk doesn’t have independent powers to fire anyone from federal agencies, the Justice Department has told a federal judge, shooting down some of critics’ more fantastical theories about the head of President Trump’s effort to remake the bureaucracy.